Thirty days ago, Victoria Lambert began the 30-Day Get Chucked Challenge, a
plan to help divest one's home of clutter. How did she get on?

#30DayGetChuckedChallenge: 62 books, 22 DVDs, 11 pairs of shoes, four vases and a tree house - the startling results of my de-clutter challenge.

Ramekins, wretched ramekins. If there is one thing I have been shocked by during my 30-Day Get Chucked Challenge this past month, it has been just how many of these small useless glass jars have found their way into my home.

At times, it has felt like an invasion by stealth. Every time I cleaned out a cupboard – oh look, there’s another one!

By then you should have identified and cleared out a staggering 465 items of household clutter in total.

Every day, you are required to post pictures of your clutter on social media, thus revealing what strange debris we humans allow to fill our homes. (I would say Britons, but the challenge has been enthusiastically adopted across cities in Australia, as well as in Hong Kong and Portland, Oregon.)

A closer look at the hundreds of items Victoria threw out Picture: Andrew Crowley/The Telegraph

The latter was a bit of a shock and I struggled to recall those long-ago days when modems weren’t (look away now, twentysomethings) built in, so we all had endless modem ports and extra cables to bring the world wide web into our homes.

And instead of dumping the cabling when we bought new computers, I wonder how many people, like me, simply stuck the old stuff in a box at the back of the study.

What strikes me most, looking back at the list, is how much free stuff has been gathering dust in the house.

Bumping into a two-year-old tub of Mini Cheddars in the sideboard was shocking enough (especially as I love Mini Cheddars).

But I wasn’t surprised to find endless jars of vitamins and bottles of beauty creams and lotions. I fear I am a notorious dabbler when it comes to self-improvement.

Most difficult to part with have been sentimental items of clothing and toys. The salopettes my daughter first skied in, for example. Yet, ski-wear really has to be passed around to ever have a chance of earning its keep. It never wears out.

And I was sad to dump the home made aquarium my daughter made. But something was looking a bit, well, fishy inside, so that had to go.

Now I’ve finished I already miss the challenge. It was surprisingly fun, even though the last week, was tough. Just finding the time needed to identify 25 or 26 items was hard enough.

But I’m buoyed up by following the #30DayGetChuckedChallenge hashtag on Twitter, which is still going strong, with plenty of people still tweeting photographs of items they are throwing out.

One reader wrote to me of how her collections brought back so many good memories, she simply couldn’t part with them. I don’t blame her.

I certainly wouldn’t want to live in a minimalist home, and – even after taking my 465 items to new homes, the charity shop, recycling and reusing what I can along the way – there is no danger of that happening.